Fastener for ladies&#39; belts.



No. 755,811. PATENTED MAR. 29, 1904. I

1 H. H. TAYLOR.

FASTENER FOR LADIES BELTS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 17, 1903. N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented March as, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE;

FASTENER FOR LADIES BELTS. V

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,811, dated March 29, 1904.

Application filed December 17, 1903. Serial No. 185,516. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, HENRY H. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Ladies Belts; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to fasteners for ladies belts, and has for its object to provide a very simple, economical, and effective device of this description which will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective of a belt equipped with my fasteners; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectional elevation, the body portion of the belt being broken away; Fig. 3, an elevation showing the belt in position around the waist of the wearer, and Fig. 4: a detail rear view of one of my fastening devices.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

.1 is-any suitable belt made of cloth or any suitable flexible fabric.

2 represents ooncavo-convex metal heads, and 3 represents hook-shaped shanks whose inner'zdr hook ends are secured in any suitable manner; within the concave portions of the headsfwhile the free ends of these hook-shanks extend backward and terminate in enlargements 4:, whichla'tter are provided with elongated slots 5. One extremity of the belt is passed through the slot of one of these hookshanks and then stitched down, so that the metallic head is secured thereto with a hingelike connection. The other hook-shank is secured to the belt in like manner, but at a point remote from the other end of said belt, so, as to leave a portion 6 extending beyond the head, of which this last-named shank forms a part.

My improved belt-fastening is utilized as follows: The belt is placed around the person of the wearer, and the extension 6 is then 5 drawn tightly around and beneath the opposite head and then passed around the other head and returned and drawn around the firstnamed head, and so on, the winding of the extension around the heads being in the general form of a figure 8. WVhen the extension has been wound around the heads in this manner, so as to leave a little projecting tab, such as I have illustrated in Fig. 3 and denoted by the numeral 7, this tab is then tucked beneath the winding, as shown in dotted lines in this view, Fig. 3, and the fastening is then completed. The hook-like shanks are slightly resilient, and as the winding of the extension is being performed the heads will be pressed firmly against the body of the wearer, and the shanks will yield, so that the general fullness of the extension portion 6 as it is passed around the shank will be forced up within the concave portions of the head in a mass, thus preventing any accidental slipping of the fastening.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

of said heads and extend backward and ter- F. W. SMITH, Jr., M. T. LONGDEN. 

